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Re: Identical files across subsequent package revisions
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Identical files across subsequent package revisions |
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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:06:47 -0500 |
Hi Taylan,
Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> writes:
> My second thought: it's surprising that IceCat supposedly changes so
> much between releases. I suppose the reason is that this analysis is on
> a per-file basis, and IceCat is mostly a massive binary.
FYI, here's the reason that IceCat is unusual among the projects sampled
in Ludovic's analysis: the large collection of JavaScript source files
and other auxiliary files, which are mostly unchanged from one release
to the next, are bundled into a single zip file in lib/icecat/omni.ja.
Mark